Jordan Peele Agrees That The Deranged 'Cats' Trailer Works A Lot Better With The Song From 'Us'

From Esquire

Every time you think things can't get worse, somehow, remarkably, they do. This week we can thank the CATS trailer for that. It's a deranged phantasmagoria of sexualised cats, Tokyo Drift lighting, and truly demented anatomical impossibilities. Directed by Tom Hooper (who should have been banned from musicals after Les Miserables) and starring a cavalcade of big names including Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Ian McKellan, and Taylor Swift, our shared nightmare hits theatres December 20, 2019.

If you can't stomach the trailer, here's what you need to know: the film is an adaptation of of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical of the same name, the fourth longest-running show on Broadway, which itself was derived from a T.S. Eliot book of children's poetry, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Plot isn't this musical's strong suit, but what little story there is follows a tribe of felines named the Jellicles, who gather once a year to select one of their own for rebirth as a younger, sexier cat.

Hooper's adaptation is the film we deserve in 2019, seemingly plucked from the mind of someone with a fever who improbably decided to drop acid and play with some cats. The trailer features cats with human fingers, cats in opulent fur coats, and bafflingly small cats that seem borrowed from Alice in Wonderland.

Like the horrifying Sonic the Hedgehog trailer, Twitter was absolutely aghast with what Universal has wrought with Cats. Even Jordan Peele thinks the trailer works a lot better with his unsettling horror version of "I Got Five On It" from Us.

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